{"id":313,"date":"2021-04-28T05:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T05:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2021-04-28T05:31:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T05:31:05","slug":"do-you-need-that-of-course-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Do You Need That Of Course Not"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another handy little Credit Circus psychop mankind master magic trick \u2026 \u201cdisposable income\u201d \u2026 \u201cmoney\u201d that is to be thrown away, or otherwise disposed of \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yehriteno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discretionary income is probably an apter term (yehIseddit); that is, money available to make some decisions, good or bad.&nbsp; Donate or blow \u2026 exercise greater discretion (HA!) in spending whatever, whenever, wherever, however, whoever (not quite), whichever (yes?), whyever (no) possible<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greater control\/flexibility \u2026 easy to delay that gratification on the necessities, shop \/ wait \/ shop again \/ wait \/ shop some more \/ wait \/ OK \u2026 now \/ wait \/ look online again \/ then maybe buy \u2026 maybe.&nbsp; If the 7Qs are all a go.&nbsp; And no more monkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thing is: &nbsp;can\u2019t know if actually have any discretionary income until find out how much owed, and to whom, and due when \u2026 still working on that.&nbsp; GOD! hooked me up then I blew it (again) so right now approaching a problem at a slow gait.&nbsp; Will deal \/ don\u2019t @me, gimme a minute \u2026 and a penny<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Food is totally discretionary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clothing is no. \u00a0Full stop.\u00a0 Unless shoes or an overcoat to keep from freezing to death.\u00a0 Otherwise, wear what\u2019s in the closet.\u00a0 After you\u2019ve sold every thing someone else will buy<em>\u2014I\u2019M TALKING TO YOOOUUU!!!<\/em>\u2014and clothes, while necessary (not during the pandemic but that too has ended not now but maybe by the time Other People read this \u2026 or not \u2026 I am talking to myself Hi!\u00a0I love you, you\u2019re great oh thank you you\u2019re fabulous too we really should get together some time), are very easy to cheap.\u00a0 Half likes thrift stores but never goes \u2018cuz Half likes thrift stores and Half is thrifty.\u00a0 Can\u2019t be thrifty in the thrift store \u2018cuz spend money on all the thrifty stuff.\u00a0 Consignment shops can be great but watch out \u2026 some stuff (used) can be overpriced (how much for used?) and those outlet overage bulk stores out in the boondocks are great too but we don\u2019t do those because far.\u00a0  My favorite?  Military surplus.  Not a huge color selection but lots of sizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No discretion on housing.&nbsp; Mortgage\/rent set, unless moving.&nbsp; Or?&nbsp; More on that later<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take care of that body!\u00a0 Only get one!\u00a0 [<sub><sup>Methuselah lived 969 years and still died just saying<\/sup><\/sub> {<em>Gen. 5:27<\/em>}] But exercise is free.\u00a0 Just stand somewhere and clench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And finding some way to occupy oneself can be free too \u2026 libraries are great, except for the homeless, but they need literature too.&nbsp; Need food more, and homes, and \u2026 yeh, but books can be a nice distraction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway \u2026 the point, and back to don\u2019t spend.\u00a0 Simple &#8217;nuff.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yehriteno<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another handy little Credit Circus psychop mankind master magic trick \u2026 \u201cdisposable income\u201d \u2026 \u201cmoney\u201d that is to be thrown away, or otherwise disposed of \u2026 Yehriteno. 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